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Double Meaning
Deep Tissue Massage
It's All Integumentary
"Sarco" Polo
200
This bone is inferior to your maxilla.
What is the mandible?
200
It's how you would describe the location of a body part that is above another, or it's a high level in hierarchy.
What is superior?
200
The 4 main types of tissue in the body are epithelial, connective, nervous, and this burly tissue.
What is muscle?
200
The cells that make up this luscious part of your body are dead and contain a protein called keratin.
What is hair?
200
Unfortunately, there are nearly 200,000 cases of this type of cancer every year in the United States.
What is sarcoma?
400
These bones are distal to the carpals or tarsals, but it's the same answer for both.
What are phalanges?
400
It can mean before (in time), or the front part of your body.
What is anterior?
400
Even though this circulatory body fluid is, well, a fluid, it's actually a type of tissue!
What is blood?
400
This layer of skin is sandwiched between the epidermis and subcutaneous layers.
What is the dermis?
400
This is the cytoplasm of muscle cells where calcium can be stored.
What is sarcoplasm?
600
This bone is proximal to the arm (Hint: it's the one attached to the thumb).
What is the radius?
600
If you were to describe the lungs, or a treaty between two parties, it would be this.
What is bilateral?
600
Part of the name of this type of epithelial tissue has the Greek root for 'false', which makes sense as the nuclei trick us into thinking this tissue has layers.
What is pseudostratified (ciliated) columnar epithelium?
600
This muscle in the epidermis will contract and, quite literally, give you the goosebumps.
What is the arrector pili?
600
We don't want to give away the answer, but it is the endoplasmic reticulum of the muscle cell that can control when the muscle contracts.
What is the sarcoplasmic reticulum?
800
It is dorsal to the ilium and just inferior of the sacrum.
What is the coccyx?
800
If your understanding of the term is this, you wouldn't know that it's also a word for being close to the surface of your skin.
What is superficial?
800
This type of tissue is made of all 3 types of connective tissue fiber and can be found around our blood vessels.
What is areolar tissue (the 3 types of connective tissue fiber are collagenous, reticular, and elastic fiber)?
800
Pee-yew! Would you tell these sweat glands to stop releasing fat and protein when you perspire? It stinks!
What are the apocrine sweat glands?
800
The cell membrane of the muscle cell.
What is the sarcolemma?
1000
This cervical vertebrae is deeper than the very head it carries, which gives it its name after the Greek God that carries the world on his shoulders.
What is the atlas?
1000
It's one of the sutures of your skull, and it's the division of your body into right/left sides.
What is sagittal?
1000
Connective tissue has fibroblasts to make fiber, macrophages for phagocytosis, and these cells that release heparin to prevent blood clots.
What are mast cells?
1000
This may sound a little corny, but this layer of your epidermis is the closest to the surface of your body.
What is the stratum corneum?
1000
The thick and thin filaments of the muscle cell make up this basic unit of contraction.
What is the sarcomere?